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'Mon oncle Benjamin' ('My Uncle Benjamin') is a 1969 French film directed by douard Molinaro, starring Jacques Brel and Claude Jade. The film is based on a once-popular French comic novel ' by Claude Tillier (1842). The 1969 film 'Don't Grieve', directed by the Georgian Georgi Daneliya, is also based on Tillier's novel as was Francis Bousquet's 1942 comic opera 'Mon oncle Benjamin'.Yoken, Melvin B. (1978). [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=BXA74sJwougC&pg=PA228 "Claude Tillier"]. 'The Old Century and the New: Essays in Honor of Charles Angoff', pp. 228229. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. The film was released on 28 November 1969.

Plot



The story is set in 1750 during the time of Louis XV. Benjamin (Jacques Brel) is a country doctor in love with the beautiful innkeeper's daughter, Manette (Claude Jade), but she refuses his advances until he produces a marriage contract. After suffering a humiliating practical joke and condemned to prison, Benjamin escapes with Manette, who realizes she prefers happiness to a marriage contract after all.

Cast



* Jacques Brel Benjamin Rathery

* Claude Jade Manette

* Bernard Alane Pont-Cass

* Robert Dalban Innkeeper

* Bernard Blier Marquis

* Rosy Varte Bettine

* Paul Frankeur Minxit

* Lyne Chardonnet Arabelle

* Armand Mestral Machecourt

* Paul Prboist Parlenta

* Daniela Surina Marquise of Cambyse

References




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